Culinary utensil.



' A. P. WADDELL.

GULINARY UTENSILI APPLICATION FILED SEPT. a, 1907.

930,634. I Patented Aug-.10,1909.

A IT ZUGTZWP UNITED sTAT Es PATENT OFFICE.

ADA F. WADDELL, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLOTTE B. SHELDON, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

cULmARY UTENSIL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 10, 1909.

Application filed September 6, 1907. Serial No. 391,737.

To all whom it may concern:

lie it known that I, ADA F. VVADDELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and useful Culinary Utensil, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a pan or other vessel for cooking food such as cake, pies, bread, meat, and vegetables. The same is applicable for use in or on gas and other stoves and ranges and the like.

The invention is more particularly designed for cooking over a gas flame or in an oven heated by gas, and is especially useful for cooking in portable ovens ordinarily used on what is known as a gas plate.

Heretofore, great difficulty has been experienced in baking food in such ovens, the tendency to burn being very great, so that the use of such ovens is generally recognized to be impracticable for general purposes.

The invention consists in constructing a cooking utensilof two flanged nested sheets of metal and a flanged insulating sheet of asbestos paper interposed between the same. Preferably, the three sheets are all nested together, and are bent over to form an outwardly-extending ledge or rim around the top' of the wall of the vessel. The inner metal sheet which forms the inside or upper facing ofthe cooking vesselpreferably extends outwardly be ond the rims of the other two sheets, and is apped under to form the underside of said rim.

U The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention in a form I at present deem advisable.

Figure 1 is a view of a pan adapted for baking biscuits, cakes, and the like. Fig. 2'

is an exaggerated fragmental section of the pan shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of a covered vessel for baking meat or other articles of food.

1 and 2 are outer and inner dished facing sheets of metal. 3 is an interposed dished sheet of insulating material, as asbestos paper. Each of these sheets is provided with a rim, as 1', 2, 3, respectively. The

rim 2 of ,the inner dished sheet 2, is provided with. an under-lap .4 embracing the rims 1 and 3, and may be flanged at the edge, as shown at 5, said flange serving as a bracket to assist in supporting the rim.

6 designates a rim wire extending around the vessel and engaging the edges of the cover 10 to indicate that any form of vessel may be constructed in accordance with this invention without departing from the spirit of the same.

The purpose of the insulated rim 4 is to prevent the heat in the-oven, which ascends around the bottom of the cooking 'vessel, from acting too forcibly upon the outside of the bread or other article being cooked in the pan or vessel.

In practice, the pan or vessel will be used in the ordinary manner. but by reason of the insulating sheet, it -will be found that the biscuits, cake, bread, and other articles of food may be cooked uniformly throughoutin a very superior manner, and if cooked until the top of the biscuits, pie, cake, bread, or

the like, becomes browned, it will be found upon removal of the article from the utensll,

that the entire surface of the article will be uniformly browned. When thus browned, the cooking will have been fully accoin plished, and' the vessel may be washed as is common with cooking utensils.

I claim A culinary utensil comprising an outer material, under-laps extending from the lastmy hand at Los Angeles California this 28th menttiioned rim dbafcik under thg firstimenday of August 1907.

tione rims, an an es exten in ownwardl from the under laps against the first A ADA A dishe sheet and serving as brackets to as- In presence of sist in supporting the rims. JAMES R. TOWNSEND,

In testlmony whereof, I have hereunto set JULIA TOWNSEND. 

